She breathed deeply. The kindly faced landlady had failed to catch his name, and said he was a tall, handsome gentleman with a great black mustache. He was evidently nervous, and very anxious to be impressive; his projecting eyes sought to dominate. ” He was intrigued. " "What!" she exclaimed, staring eagerly in his face. “This girl—she’s really a very charming, frank person—had had her imagination fired, so she told me, by a school performance of Romeo and Juliet. " The spinsters stared at her blankly. At least, I frustrated her design in calling upon him this morning. Gerald had himself told her that this Prudence will present her to society as Melusine Charvill. ‘Dieu du ciel, for what do you take me?’ ‘I don’t know,’ he threw at her. Kneebone assured her that he did say so; and, as a further proof of his sincerity, squeezed her hand very warmly under the table. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. “I”—he seemed to have a difficulty with the word—“I love you. " He offered cigars, and Ruth got up.
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